No one cares, but if anyone stumbles upon this I'll happily hear your input, critique, praise, alternatives, anything.

I want to upgrade my current machine and assemble a small LAN with some utility boxes on it for various purposes. The first stage of this is obviously the workstation upgrade. The current machine is the old mac mini that I've been using since 2011 or so, 8 gig of RAM, core2duo, platter disk.

Last night I looked again and found some slightly slower zotac models, similar, more toy like, etc. Anything else out there?

Along with the new box will come a new monitor, bigger, more pixels, more real estate, more progress. Someone helpfully suggested that the best-value monitor was a Dell P2415Q which I didn't like the look of, too high a pixel density, not big enough. But it has a sibling P2715Q which is $948.75 locally. Any other suggestions welcome! If not, I'll quite likely get exactly that. 5.5 inches more than my current monitor, and roughly 4x the dots, plus vastly superior quality. For my reference: http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=MONDEL2735

Studying modern RAM specs, the Crucial stuff I was looking at is actually pretty crappy. For my non-overclocked usage, the best option appears to be CL9 1600 and the locally available stuff is from $175nz.

A couple of people (Merp and boostedcabbage) gave Samsung disks the thumbs up. Reflecting on the reading I've done, I think I'm best to spend an extra couple of hundred and get a bigger disk as although I won't fill the smaller one, more free space is always nice, and the smart way these drives share the load around implies larger for same usage rate = longer life, all else equal. In that case, let's call it 430NZ for the disk, and 2855 to save. This disk: "Samsung 850 Pro Series MZ-7KE512BW 512GB" http://pricespy.co.nz/product.php?p=2724062http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=HDDSAM5512

If I don't get some of this gear soon, I'll shout myself a set in May for sure. Might nab some of the pieces of the puzzle on Friday, though. An already-cheap supplier is having a hard-core sale. Just remains to be seen what, if anything, will be cheaper then, than now. So, price list, for the record:

Done deed, just shy of 1500 including a 2.5% CC fee on top of the above 1461.97.

Now to find some RAM for it (a single good 16 would be a nice start) and borrow a screen to set it up. I don't even need to have a screen for a while. I'll just use it for the power headless! Mu ha ha ha! :-D

Slightly irresponsible, but should be OK.

I hereby swear to do everything right on this machine. Nothing adhoc, and scripts to keep things neat and tidy. Lessons learned applied. Amen.

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